HSK 4 · Verbs

禁止 jìnzhǐ “to prohibit” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 禁止 means

  1. to prohibit
  2. to forbid
  3. to ban

How to say 禁止

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale禁jìn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale止zhǐ3rd tone, dipping

禁止 in a sentence

  1. 禁止吸烟。

    Jìnzhǐ xīyān.

    No smoking.

    Sentence #4885840 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 阅览室里禁止说话。

    Yuèlǎnshì lǐ jìnzhǐ shuōhuà.

    Talking isn’t allowed in the reading room.

    Sentence #727946 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 禁止拍照。

    Jìnzhǐ pāizhào.

    No photography.

    Sentence #5918695 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 禁止 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 禁 (jìn) with each of its parts in a different colour
禁jìnto prohibit
  • 林forest · línSound part
  • 示sign · shìMeaning part

示 hints at the meaning (sign); 林 (lín) hints at the sound. Compare it with jìn.

The character 止 (zhǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
止zhǐto stop
  • 上above · shǎng
  • 丨line · gǔn

How to write 禁止

禁 13 strokes · 止 4 strokes

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禁止 (jìnzhǐ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 禁止 (jìnzhǐ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 禁止

Words with 禁

严禁yánjìn · to strictly prohibit不禁bùjīn · can’t help (doing)

Words with 止

阻止zǔzhǐ · to prevent截止jiézhǐ · to end防止fángzhǐ · to prevent制止zhìzhǐ · to stop终止zhōngzhǐ · to terminate不止bùzhǐ · more than迄今为止qìjīnwéizhǐ · so far

More words: Common Verbs

接受jiēshòu · to accept节约jiéyuē · to economise结果jiéguǒ · result进行jìnxíng · to advance究竟jiūjìng · to go to the bottom of a matter举jǔ · to lift举办jǔbàn · to conduct开玩笑kāiwánxiào · to play a joke

FAQs

禁止 (jìnzhǐ) means “to prohibit” or “to forbid”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it jìnzhǐ: jìn with a 4th tone, then zhǐ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 禁止 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jinzhi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 禁止 from the suggestions. Typing jinzhi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
禁止 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.